XF 2.2 Admin template mod not showing up in production?

[kirsty]

I've got an admin template mod - adding extra settings to a forum as in https://xenforo.com/docs/dev/lets-build-an-add-on/#modifying-the-forum-edit-form - in an add-on and it works fine on my dev server but not on my production server.

• I've used the same technique in a different add-on and that works fine on both servers
• I've tried changing the find/replace text and the execution order so the values are different to the other add-on I wrote, but that also makes it work ok on dev and not in production.
• The template_modifications.xml on the production server show the admin template mod looking the similar in both add-ons (different values, modification keys etc but same structure).
• Admin template mods can't be viewed in the admin control panel on the production server so it can't have got disabled or overwritten (can it?)

Is there anything I can safely do to kick the production server into reloading the template mods for one add-on or something like that? Or any reason it might be ignoring it?

 

[Anatoliy]

Do you have 1 on your production server for this modification?

If all has gone well, when you return to the template modifications list, you will see the log summary is displaying 1 / 0 / 0 therefore indicating that the modification successfully applied one time.

 

[kirsty]

Since the production server isn't in dev mode it doesn't show the admin template mods in the control panel at all. They all work for other add-ons though.

 

[Anatoliy]

Oh, my bad.

 

[kirsty]

Oh, my bad.

No problem! Thanks for replying. I do very much feel like I've probably missed something really obvious!

 

[kirsty]

Hmmm, digging into the xf_template_modification db on the production server shows that template mod as disabled though.

 

[kirsty]

Well I've managed to get it to work by a convoluted version of 'have you tried switching it off and on again'...

• set the template mod to enabled (1) by fiddling in the production db
• uploaded a slightly modified template mod that had been set to disabled on the dev server
• then uploaded another slightly modified template that had been set to enabled on the dev server

I'm not sure how it got the disabled/enabled flag out of sync on the production server but this seems to have kicked it back into sync.

(I'm still sure there would have been a simpler method to do this!)